Description Dan Allen 2004-09-22 12:20:17 EDT

When I am coding rather quickly, I get ahead of Eclipse by introducing types it
does not yet know about.  However, I have to interrupt my typing to update the
unknown types as soon as I need to include a method on which I need assistance.
 For instance, I might type

private static final Log log = LogFactory.

at this point Eclipse is underlining Log and LogFactory and cannot provide me
with assistance for methods and types on LogFactory.  I would expect Eclipse to
prompt me to qualify the LogFactory class at this point, knowing that next I
will be searching for a method.  Instead Eclipse just sits there, looking confused.

Now, if I were to type

private static final Log log = LogFactory

and then spawn the code assist with CTRL-Enter, I do get the prompt for the
qualification of the LogFactory class.  Once that is done, I can then enter the
"." (dot) and Eclipse will bring up known methods and types.  It would just be
nice if Eclipse was proactive here and prompted for both without needing to
specifically hit CTRL-Enter.